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Industry Statistics

The dental industry is facing opportunities and challenges from a marketplace that is increasingly complex. Being able to understand and monitor the key drivers of industry profitability is an important way to support effective decision making, to that end the Australian Dental Industry Association (ADIA) provides valuable statistics on the market for dental products and services in Australia. Key reports produced include:

Australian Dental Industry Intelligence Report
Acknowledged globally as the nation's most authoritative assessment of the market for dental products, the Australian Dental Industry Intelligence Report provides an annual sales data across all key product areas and reviews changes on a yearly basis.
[Price: $275.00; ADIA Members - free of charge]

ADIA Dental Products Business Conditions Survey
This quarterly survey of Australian product suppliers reviews current conditions and future expectations across key measures including sales volumes, selling prices, business costs, wage costs, workforce size. It provides an excellent overview of the commercial environment in which the dental industry operates.
[Price: $38.50; ADIA Members - free of charge]

ADIA Bite Magazine Dental Practice Business Conditions Survey
The ADIA Bite Magazine Dental Practice Business Conditions Survey is produced using feedback from individual dental practices across Australia. It reviews current business conditions and future expectations on a quarterly basis across a number of key indicators including the number of patient numbers and vacant chair time. It's a must-read for those wanting guidance on business sentiment across dental practices nation-wide

Dental Workforce Data
Compiled by ADIA this statistics series reviews the size of the dental industry workforce and key demographics across the various professional groups. It provides guidance on the number of dentists, dental assistants, dental hygienists, oral health therapists and dental prosthetists by state/territory in addition to other statistics including number of hours worked and whether employed in the private or public sector.

The ADIA Australian Dental Industry Intelligence Report, the ADIA Dental Products Business Conditions Survey and the ADIA Bite Magazine Dental Practice Business Conditions Survey reflect ADIA’s commitment to provide member businesses with the tools to plan for the growth and sustainability of their businesses, and to help create jobs in Australia’s dental industry.

The latest assessment of business sentiment amongst dental product suppliers suggests that sales volumes increased in the second quarter of FY2017-18; however, there was sentiment of a decline in selling prices.
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A senate committee has recommended passage of legislation that will cut the the red tape associated with introducing new dental products to the Australian market. It's a legislative reform that ADIA has long argued for.
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Thanks to ADIA's advocacy, the dental industry looks set to escape a proposed TGA reform that would require patient information 'cards' to be provided to patients, a reform that ignores advances in electronic patient records.
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More expedient Australian market approval for new dental products is what legislative reforms before the parliament will achieve, something made possible as a result of ADIA's policy advocacy over a number of years.
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A new edition of the Australian Dental Industry Intelligence Report has been commissioned by ADIA, research that will provide the industry with the most authoritative assessment of the Australian dental products market.
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For the dental industry, and medical devices sector more broadly, the TPP Free Trade Agreement will improve the information available to importers and exporters and reduce unnecessary delays in approvals, improving standard-setting.
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Proposed legislative amendments that provide the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) with stronger compliance and enforcement powers and graduated penalties for non-compliant behaviours has been endorsed by the dental industry.
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Dental product manufacturers and suppliers will gain new insights into the changing nature of the market thanks to ADIA’s pioneering geospatial mapping tool to be launched at the ADX18 Sydney dental exhibition.
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Ensuring that decisions taken by dental professionals on patient diagnostic and treatment options are independent of undue influence by product suppliers is what underpins the industry's new code of practice.
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ADIA has been invited to provide advice to the Senate’s select committee on red tape which is reviewing how the health sector is disadvantaged by regulations that are burdensome, complex, redundant or duplicated across jurisdictions.
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The dental industry is leading the charge in development of new regulatory standards for 3D printed medical devices with the aim of allowing the sector to adopt this pioneering new technology as it evolves.
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The dental industry will next year have access to the latest geospatial tools to analyse the market for dental products thanks to a major investment in member services by the Australian Dental Industry Association (ADIA).
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The latest edition of the Australian Dental Workforce In Numbers Report shows the growth in the number of registered dentists to June 2017 was 2.9%, a rate slightly slower than the growth over the overall workforce.
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ADIA member business are have the opportunity to strengthen the reputation of the dental industry as an ethical supplier of products by becoming involved in the committees that reviews the ADIA Code of Practice.
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As the transformation of dental practice ownership continues apace, the formation of an Association of Dental Support Organisations (ADSO) local chapter provides the sector with direction and a focus point for stakeholder engagement.
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The dental industry is preparing for a new edition of the ADIA Code Of Practice that seeks to ensure the dental industry's promotional activities do not inappropriately a healthcare professional's decision on patient treatment planning
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Responding to advocacy by ADIA and other industry associations, the Australian Government has announced that for contracts worth up to $1 million it will pay invoices within twenty days, significantly improving small business cashflow.
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The important role that member businesses play in determining policy reform priorities comes to the fore as ADIA briefs the Prime Minister in parliament house on the issues important to small businesses in the sector.
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